Moore county is back online. Thank God. Our neighborhood was the last to get power. It's so good to see streetlights and Christmas lights and porch lights. Very good to see traffic lights!!

Those Duke Energy folks, many of them live here, busted their butts to get us back in business and I am so thankful. I hope all of the restaurants are able to get back to business soon. So thankful for the food trucks that set up around town and kept folks fed. Harris Teeter gave away bags of ice in their parking lot. Police and fire departments and other places had charging stations set up. Lowe's had trucks of generators brought in overnight to sell.

It was a jacked up situation and the offenders should rot but it showed what the community can do when SHTF. I imagine there was a similar sentiment after 9/11. I was living in Germany so I don't know how it was here but I remember hearing about people coming together.

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